A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose StyleSherwin Cody A.C. McClurg, 1903 - 415 էջ |
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... face to face with the problem of " economy of attention , " so well dis- cussed by Herbert Spencer in his " Essay on Style . " We may hold the attention of our hearer or reader in two ways , - one negatively , by not giv- ing him any ...
... face to face with the problem of " economy of attention , " so well dis- cussed by Herbert Spencer in his " Essay on Style . " We may hold the attention of our hearer or reader in two ways , - one negatively , by not giv- ing him any ...
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... face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen . The poet that beautified the sect that was other- wise inferior to the rest , saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore ...
... face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen . The poet that beautified the sect that was other- wise inferior to the rest , saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore ...
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... faces God , and shrinks from man . Surely the wickedness of falsehood , and breach of faith , cannot possibly be so highly ex- pressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it ...
... faces God , and shrinks from man . Surely the wickedness of falsehood , and breach of faith , cannot possibly be so highly ex- pressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it ...
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... faces are but a gallery of pictures , and talk but a tinkling cymbal , where there is no love . The Latin adage meeteth with it a little , " Magna civitas , magna solitudo " ; 1 because in a great town friends are scattered , so that ...
... faces are but a gallery of pictures , and talk but a tinkling cymbal , where there is no love . The Latin adage meeteth with it a little , " Magna civitas , magna solitudo " ; 1 because in a great town friends are scattered , so that ...
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... face or comeliness , say or do himself ! A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty , much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like . But all these things are graceful in a ...
... face or comeliness , say or do himself ! A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty , much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like . But all these things are graceful in a ...
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Էջ 7 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Էջ 240 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Էջ 8 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Էջ 12 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Էջ 8 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Էջ 246 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Էջ 249 - Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?
Էջ 247 - The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
Էջ 13 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Էջ 284 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.